Rich Man’s Strike Fails in…

Today’s attempted strike in Venezuela the fourth this year attempted by pro-coup elements of the oligarchy, the country’s former rulers, foreign interests, and that nation’s corrupt and dishonest Commercial Media is, by all accounts, an abject failure, limited to wealthy neighborhoods while the great majority of Venezuelans work and shop today in open defiance of the strike call.

Hmm, while the Bushies rant and foam about Iraq, lefties are gaining, and keeping, major power in much of South America